Lauren has served as TWR’s president and CEO since December 2008. In 1979, Lauren married June. He says that God has greatly used her in his life to develop sensitivity to the needs of others and has used their family to mold his character. Lauren and June have one son, Grant, a graduate of Regent University School of Law in Virginia Beach, Va.

For most of his adult life, Lauren has been involved in bringing Christ to the nations and seeing spiritual laborers developed. Lauren finds his calling in Isaiah 49:6: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations that my salvation may reach the ends of the earth.”